Rover dash

[Keith Webb]

Found bolted to the remains of a cab 13 is this interesting dash - looking at first like a 11/12 cab, it is in fact from a Rover armoured car.



David, can you comment on the 2126 contract number? Interesting to see it's a F60S chassis type.

Another view:



Note the rounded corners and three switch plates.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

This is another F60S contract, Demand S/M 2126 placed by the British with the DND, Canada for Australia. Here are the known ones:

2106 Ford Model Number C018QF or C298QF “Shipped direct to overseas” # 12 BASRA [400] and AUSTRALIA
2126 Ford Model Number C018QF or C298QF [Australia] E.g. # 2G-7785F #12 [and # 13 cabs?]MIXED ORDER WITH CHEVROLET 8442 C60S?
2127 Ford Model Number C29Q [Australia] E.g. # 3G-7606 # 12 [and # 13 cabs?] MIXED ORDER WITH CHEVROLET 8442 C60S? [#13] for Ambulances at least

[Keith Webb]

Thanks for that, David. The Rovers were built from cab 12s, this is the only cab 12 F60S data plate I've seen.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Nice addition to the dash (for soldier creature comfort), is the coffee cup holder just below the data plates.

[Tony Smith]

Keith, Bob Mosely (what's happened to him, too, by the way?) posted a similar pic of a Rover dash in Ford instruments restoration. All the cab 12 Ford dashes I've seen look like the one pictured below. If the Rover was cab 12 based, why didn't they use the standard dash? Or is this a earlier/ later version? The switch plates on the Rover look very factory (ie Canadian).

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Note it is a 1942 Model as against the known 1942 Model mentioned in the previous posting.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Keefy & Tony
Those two images look like they could do with some Bob TLC.
Don't worry Tony, I have'nt dropped off the twig, just been busy moving house and getting a big shed organised.
Bob

[Tony Smith]

Hi, Bob! Pictured below is a pic from the Ford "Special pattern Vehicles" book (which is how the above dash would look like after Bob had finished with it ) So where do the Rover dashes come from?

[Keith Webb]

An original Rover dash...




A Salesman Bob restoration. Brilliant!

[Tony Smith]

Another S/M 2126 data tag, this from a cab 13 F60S truck, wasn't converted into a Rover Armoured Car.

Serial:26984
Eng no: 3G6249F
Model F60S
S/M 2126
Date : 9.9.42 (Date of manufacture, assembly or delivery?)

[Rod Diery]

I must have missed this thread when it started but working on the better late than never theory I decided to put in my two bob's worth.

Early Rovers were based on the C018Q chassis and had the Cab 12 type dash. In fact, the rover hull was built over most of the entire lower portion of the #12 cab including the distintive wheel arch bars and all the engine covers, floor plates, etc.

When the later C29Q chassis was used for later Rovers, rather than redesign the interior totally to suit the Cab 13, it appears that mostly the earlier Cab 12 type interior was used. I am not 100% certain of this since I have never had the opportunity to examine a Rover on a C29Q chassis.

Obviously though, the Cab 12 dash was no longer available so a locally built dash was used fitted with the later Cab 13 type switch plates. Apart from the switch plates, the most obvious feature of these panels is the flat topped mounting flange and the speedo is mounted centrally in it's panel rather than closer to the top and does not have the Ford script badge below it.

Mike Cecil's AMEP Vol 3 Australian Scout and Armoured Cars 1933 to 1945 has photos of the two dash styles on Page 33 although the captions have been transposed.

Cheers
Rod
Rover ARN 77641